He looks like he's seen some shit but I think the lighting is too soft, harder more dramatic lighting would work better to get that "don't fuck with me" look. I think some tattoos and possibly some scars would help as well.
Thank you for your feedback. Scars are actually a great idea and would give a little bit more edge. I'll have to see if I can find something like that.
About the lighting, I'm just designing new characters and it's my character building light rig. I usually use same lighting for all characters, and then try to make the skin of all the characters look decent in that same lighting. That way later on it's easier for me to tweak environment's lighting when all character skins have same kind of base value.
So basically these are not really meant to be artistic or anything, but more like character drafts for a game that hopefully sees the light of day some day. I just think it's fun to share these and ask for feedback to see how people feel about them.
Anyways, here's youth crush and current landlady of MC. I hope she's not looking too young. I was going for late 30s/early 40s look.... but that seems to be super hard age. People at that age don't usually have much wrinkles yet, but they don't look like they are 20 anymore either. Maybe it's about the skin maps or face shape or something to achieve that look, but I feel it's always either too many or too few wrinkles. Haha, and yeah I know, it's shocking that landlady is not MC's mother
